benguild | 1 month ago | on: Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday
are they vibe coding?
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benguild | 1 month ago | on: Ask HN: Share your personal website
benguild | 3 months ago | on: The fuck off contact page
This website is a great example of when I’d want to use reader mode in my browser and it also breaks that
benguild | 3 months ago | on: Seed. LINE's Custom Typeface
is this necessary?
benguild | 4 months ago | on: Apple Removes Tea Dating Apps over Privacy Violations and User Complaints
prev: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44732995
> Ask HN: Why is "Tea" still on the App Store after so many data breaches?
> Furthermore, it’s being promoted in the “Top Charts” while the “App Privacy” card says they only collect email addresses.
benguild | 5 months ago | on: Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook
Been waiting for this
benguild | 7 months ago | on: NINA: Rebuilding the original AIM, AOL Desktop, Yahoo and ICQ platforms
the sad thing about this is what made it magical before was the people that were on there, and it’s impossible to get that back now!
benguild | 8 months ago | on: AI is turning Apple into a "loser"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44519452 I just posted that the Foundation Models aren’t really delivering much confidence
benguild | 10 months ago | on: A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen
this is cool but does it meet strong safety standards?
benguild | 11 months ago | on: Things Are Bad at Tesla. They're About to Get Much Worse
Are TikTok users being steered to anti-Elon content as retaliation for DOGE or something?
benguild | 1 year ago | on: X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links
This is incredibly stupid if true
benguild | 1 year ago | on: Visual Basic 6 rebuilt in C# – complete with form designer and IDE in browser
This is the kind of content I am here for
benguild | 1 year ago | on: More annoying macOS 15 Sequoia prompts: Bluetooth
I wonder if there were a lot of support calls about people whose keyboards wouldn’t connect, etc.
Unlike a touch screen device, folks may not understand that disabling Bluetooth for no reason has input consequences
benguild | 1 year ago | on: Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links
Seems like a really good opportunity for a browser extension to offer links to other sources
benguild | 1 year ago | on: FTC Pushed to Crack Down on Companies That Ruin Hardware via Software Updates
Great news for anyone who owns a “Smart TV”
benguild | 1 year ago | on: Apple's permissions features are out of balance
it definitely seems like they're using "consumer privacy" as a way to gate/limit whether other companies are allowed to build certain types of third-party apps.
benguild | 1 year ago | on: Tell HN: ChatGPT Mac app removed Cmd+Q menu shortcut/item to discourage quitting
This is ridiculous… the only convenient way to quit now is by command-clicking the dock icon
benguild | 1 year ago | on: Apple has reached its first-ever union contract with store employees in Maryland
same with third-party App Stores or any other thing like that
benguild | 1 year ago | on: What happened to blogs
Social media gobbled up the distribution
benguild | 1 year ago | on: Dyson to axe around 1k jobs in Britain
it has to be because of those combination sink hand dryers. terrible!
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